mental health players

Lights! Camera! Action!

The Mental Health Players have been taking center stage for over 20 years, bringing distinctive, thought-provoking presentations to audiences across Maryland.

Using role play and interactive audience participation, this troupe of volunteer actors expands awareness and educates community members about mental health issues, mental illnesses, relationship problems, substance use, and a comprehensive range of societal problems.

Conflicts are presented through dialogue between actors, with a narrator facilitating audience responses. This flexible, spontaneous format allows the actors to tailor performances to a broad variety of topics and audiences.

Everybody can benefit

Used as an alternative or supplement to a keynote speaker, the Players illustrate familiar scenes and get to the root of disagreements. Groups ranging in number from 20 to 500 have benefited from the Players' presentations over the years. These include:

Institute on the Ministry to the Sick

Child Abuse Prevention Center

Baltimore Neighborhoods

Baltimore Orioles Staff

U.S. Department of Justice

Federal Bureau of Prisons

Business and Professional Women

Baltimore County and Baltimore City Police

League of Women Voters

St. Agnes Hospital

Patterson Park High School

Internal Revenue Service

Baltimore Veterans Administration

The Mental Health Players staff can also develop unique, custom presentations based on group needs.